Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Australia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Donny Hathaway to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Pole. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
The Blues Magoos,
Inner City,
Television,
The Blackbyrds,
Marvin Gaye,
Dave Gahan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Soulsonic Force,
Gichy Dan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ken Boothe,
Freddie Wadling,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Star Department,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ornette Coleman,
Pere Ubu,
The Cure,
The Remains,
David Bowie,
Fear,
The Associates,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Flag,
Al Stewart,
Erasure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Normal,
Section 25,
Ponytail,
The Young Rascals,
Eric Dolphy,
Anthony Braxton,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gun Club,
Q and Not U,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Ronan,
Malaria!,
Ultravox,
Crispy Ambulance,
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Laurel Aitken,
Pagans,
Excepter,
Chris Corsano,
Sister Nancy,
Soul II Soul,
Shuggie Otis,
Model 500,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Johnny Clarke,
Jawbox,
Eric Copeland,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.